Hypocrites usually
care more about external conformity than about inward righteousness. (Commentary on Luke 14:1-6)
This brought
to mind an episode in Flashpoint (a police drama where an elite tactical unit responds
to extreme situations) – where Ed, in doing his job, shots a young woman and
kills her. He followed procedure, did
what he was trained to do, but it’s eating him up because what he did went
against what he knew was right. In a
following episode the mother of the young woman comes to forgive him, but he can’t
accept it, because he can’t forgive himself.
There is this conflict between doing what he was trained to do and doing what he
knew in his heart was the right thing to do.
We are born
with this knowledge of what is right and wrong, so that when we sin, by doing
what we know is wrong, our hearts confront us and there is no peace. Only through the forgiveness of a loving
Father can we be made right again. That
forgiveness is only found in Jesus.
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